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Aid Grows Despite Embargo
Aid Grows Despite Embargo

Aid Grows Despite Embargo

(Newser) - Palestinians are actually receiving more foreign aid, not less,  than they were before the US and the European Union slapped an aid embargo against the Hamas led Palestinian Authority last year, reports Steven Erlanger. The United Nations and the International Monetary Fund say $1.2 billion was given to...

Turkey Bans YouTube
Turkey
Bans
YouTube

Turkey Bans YouTube

Greek videos are "insulting to Turkishness"

(Newser) - A Turkish court banned YouTube on Wednesday after Greek videos on the site insulted Turks—in particular Ataturk, the country's modern founding father—calling them homosexuals. The videos, part of an escalating "virtual war" between Greek and Turkish citizens belittling each other, were deemed an insult to Turkishness, a...

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